[28340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Above.net? ... vultures swoop in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sehmel, William C.)
Wed Apr 26 18:34:08 2000
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From: "Sehmel, William C." <bsehmel@narrows.com>
To: "Mark Kent" <mark@noc.mainstreet.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:36:01 -0700
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Wasn't it UUnet that was SHUTTING OFF customers when the whole DDOS thing
was going on?
That's kinda what I thought..
Bill Sehmel - OpalNetworks, Sr. Network Engineer
Office 415.333.0336 558 South Hill Blvd.
Virtual Office 510.967.6679 Daly City, Ca 94014
Is your network secure? OpalNetworks can show you.
bsehmel@opalnetworks.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Kent <mark@noc.mainstreet.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Above.net? ... vultures swoop in
>
> It doesn't take long for the vultures to swoop in:
>
> I just picked up a voice mail from a UUnet salesperson that says
> "... I saw that y'all are at AboveNet and I'm fairly sure that you are
> aware of what happened yesterday with the denial of service attacks
> and I was wondering if y'all might be looking to go with somebody else
> that way you aren't shut down and you don't lose business ..."
>
> I must have missed the UUnet press release that stated that
> UUnet will not be affected by any DDOS attacks. Or maybe it
> is in a document covered by an NDA :-)
>
> -mark
>
>
>
